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Stanford Heath Care patient Vaness French had heart disease for most of his life and became too sick to qualify for heart transplantation. The cardiac surgeons at Stanford offered him a new option – a total artificial heart and ultimately a new lease on life.

Last spring, the Stanford Medicine Music Network (SMMN) was launched to bring together musicians and music lovers in Stanford’s medical community. A natural addition to the Medicine & the Muse Program, which supports the humanities and arts in the medical center, SMMN – pronounced “summon” – was also created to facilitate opportunities to make connections between… Read more Introducing Stanford Medicine Music Network

The Stanford community is gearing up for Giving Tuesday, a burgeoning effort to establish a global day of philanthropy and volunteering. Tomorrow, Dec. 2, students, faculty and staff will shoot “unselfies” and participate in other activities as part of a hashtag-driven event that has some roots on campus. Giving Tuesday began in 2012 with… Read more

On Wednesday, Nov. 19, TEMPLE GRANDIN, one of the most accomplished adults with autism, spoke to an overflow crowd at the School of Medicine. Her talk focused on understanding animal behavior and reducing animals’ stress, but she interwove descriptions of her research with comments on how living with autism has influenced her work – and, indeed,… Read more Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures

“TY MONTGOMERY, a senior wide receiver on the Stanford football team, can’t do everything. But he’s willing to try,” says an article in the latest issue of Stanford magazine. “Fast enough to outrun defenders and strong enough to run through them, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound senior is one of college football’s category smashers: an all-purpose star.… Read more Vote for Stanford's Ty Montgomery

AMBER ORRANGE and the Cardinal women’s basketball team made an impressive national statement while snapping another one of the University of Connecticut’s remarkable winning streaks. Orrange made a go-ahead jumper with 1:38 left in overtime and the tying 3-pointer with 1.4 seconds remaining in regulation to send No. 6 Stanford to the 88-86 upset of… Read more Stanford's women's basketball team breaks UConn's 47-game winning streak

JENS NØRSKOV, a professor at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive the 2015 Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society for his groundbreaking work on catalysis, which is used to promote chemical reactions in thousands of industrial processes for making fertilizers, fuels, plastics and a host of other products.… Read more Stanford professor wins 2015 Irving Langmuir Prize

Stanford history Professor KEITH BAKER has won an Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association. Each year the AHA honors senior historians in the United States for lifetime achievement in the discipline. Baker is one of three to win the award for 2014. “This came as a complete surprise,” Baker said. “I was… Read more